The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-08
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News

Summary OF the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES
An order has been issued by the Wal
Department, by the direction OF the Presi-
dent, restoring to the army Major Benja
min p. Runkle, retired, who was dropped
on the orderof the Court OF Claims. This
judgment. was reversed by the United
States Supreme Court May "a, 1887.
The following Presidential post-ofhces
hsvO-beea sFele9ated to the fourth-clasa,
having fallen below the minimum for Presi
dental Offices: Silver Cliff, Col Iveritou
and Dyvorton, Conn.,; Ketchum, Idaho;
Griggsville and Havelock. H.; Elkader,
Ia; Carhondale and Fort Learenworth,
Kan. Wiscasset, Ne; FoWlorville, Grand
Ledge and Norenci, Mich; Albany, No.
White Sulphur Springs, Mont; Angelica
n. Y; New Richmond and Waverly, O.;
Knox. North Clarendon and Punxsutaw-
ney, Pa; Martinsville, Va, and Cisco
Texas. ~
TIE following named members Of the
Board Of Pension Appeals have been reap
pointed by the Secretary Of the Interior
George Baber, of Kentucky; John A. JUDI
son, Of New York; Patrick J. Rogers, Of
New York; Robert d. Graham, Of North
Carolinss 8. W. Rittenhouse, Of the Dis
trict Of COLUMBIA, and Robert F. Hill, OF
Michigan.
The President will attend the centennial
celebration at Clinton, N. Y, but beyond
that has made no plans for the summer.
LEVI BACON, financial clerk In the Int
rior Department, who died recently, IL
H. mt ~
$4,000. The money went principally in
and A. their pay becomes due it will be ap
propriated until the deficiency is made
good.
Tas public debt statement for June
showed . decrease during the month OF
s16 rs II; decrease during the fiscal
year which ended June 80, e1O9, III, 666&
THE EAST.
SECRETARY WHITNEY visited and inspect
Cd the Brooklyn navy yard on the 9th.
EX-GOvERNOR MORRILL,, OF Maine, has re
ceived partial stroke Of paralysis, but can
talk and use his limbs.
FIYTY-FoUR lots Of manuscript Of the late
Salmi Morse were sold recently in New
york for &l47. A three fourths interest in
the passion Play" brought only as.
SEVENTY members Of the New York police
force have been retired for arriving at the
age Of sixty years.
FIRE in New York City the other morning
destroyed Tobias News roofing paper fac
tory, causing S., 900 loss. Several female
employees had narrow escapes.
THIRTEEN of the rlotous street laborers Of
Rochester, N. Y, have been arrested, and
all was reported quiet. They were all for
eigners.
The defense in the Sharp bribery trial in
New York City was concluded on the 18th
without any sensational features.
ACCORDING to announcement, the strik-
ing employees of the salt works at Natrona,
Pa, were evicted from the company's
houses.
An injunction has been obtained in New
York City to prevent the Richmond & Dan
vile road from paving dividend Of three
per cent. on its stock as ordered by the d.
ectors.
JOIN LAIDLAw and DIR. Robert N. Mills,
Of Elmira, n. ", have been arrested for
defrauding the National Pension Office of
1900 through a blind man.
The cotton mills at Meanwhile, r L, have
shut down because Of the strike of the
weavers.
LArLIN 4 RAND's powder mill, Wayne,
n. J., exploded the other morning. Five
men were killed and several slightly in
jured.
THE strike of street laborers of Roches.
ter, n. Y. ended in the defeat Of the men.
MRS. MABEL BAYARD-KANE, widow Of the
late John J. Kane, q brother Of the Arctic
explorer, and the sister of Secretary OF
State Bayard, was married at St Georges
Church, New York, recently, to Levi G.
Bird, one of the most prominent members
of the Delaware bar.
GOVERNOR BoDwELI, Of Maine, has or
dered strict enforcement Of the Prohibi-
tory law, alluding especially to the attempt
to sell liquor by imported packages under
revenue protection.
The jury in the bribery case against
Jacob Sharp, Of New York, returned Q yer.
dict of guilty ON the 18th with . recon-
mendation to mercy. Sentence was post
poned.
AT Lake Q1insigamond, Mass, recently
George Bubear, champion oarsman OF Eng.
land, easily beat James A. Ten Eyck in q
three mile race for $500 . side Bubear's
time, 20:15; Ten Eyck was one second
later.
A CASH box containing 500, 900 worth of
deeds and valuable papers was found in q
hallway in Thompson street, New York
the other night. The lid had been forced
open and the money tray cleaned out. Thu
police were hunting for the owner-osept
Sweet, proprietor Of Q Bleecker street laun
dry, who had vacated his shop.
GRACE RoARK, the West Shore express
robber, was sentenced to twenty years
hard labor at Utica, n Y, on the 3Oth.
TIE Lasters' Union has given up it
struggle with the boot manufacturers OF
Worcester, Mass, and the struggle be
tween them 10 finally ended.
A SHOCK Of earthquake was felt in North
ern New Hampshire on the 3Oth.
MRS. MARIA HALPIN. who was heard OF
in the Cleveland canvass during the Presi
Dental campaign of 1884, has been married
and lives with her husband, Albert Secord
in New Rochelle, n. Y. During the cam
paign he was often mentioned As her uncle
He was in fact, it is said, an uncle of hel
former husband.
PLEURo-PNEUMoNIA, which has been rag
ing in the upper part Of West Chester
County, n. Y, has attacked the cattle at
Throgg's Neck. The State officials were
notified and strict quarantine established.
The infected animals were killed at once.
The mortality in New York on the LIST
was greater than on any other day this
year. One hundred and seventy persons
died. the greater number from cholera in
fautum.
Two THOUSAND employees of the Reading
fPa ir0n yvopke inf The vnauo~o